ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life
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Summary of Ordinary Life for October 20, 2024
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Dear Ones -
As the upcoming national election gets closer, people on both sides of the “great divide” that our country has become are using “fear tactics” to persuade people to vote for their side. We are assured that doomsday will certainly come if the other side is elected. Since we are “all in this together,” all in the same country, all on the same boat, I decided to speak to this fear this week in my teaching. I called the talk -
Riding the Waves with Nervous Nellie
In order to learn to live with this each of us must be willing to do her/his own personal work and we must do the work to rebuild a divided community. Learning to be a non-anxious presence has a powerful effect and influence.
(This was the first of a two-part teaching which I plan to continue next week with a teaching I’m calling “A Theology of Horror.”)
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Be well and much love,
Bill Kerley
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